Improvement in straw-carriers for thrashing-machines



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Witnesses,

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrron.

GEORGE GENTZEL, OF SPRING MILLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-CARRIERS FOR THRASHlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,545, dated April27, 1875 application filed July 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE GENTZEL, of SpringMills, in the county of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedan Improved Straw-Carrier for Thrashing-Machines; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of thisspecification- Figure 1 being a top view of my improved straw-carrierarranged in connection with a thrashing-machine, so as to deliver thestraw to the right from the thrashing-machine; Fig. 2, a side elevationof the same; Fig. 3, a top view of the straw-carrier andthrashingmachine, the carrier being arranged to convey the straw to theleft from the thrashingmachine; Fig. 4, a side elevation of the same.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a straw-carrier in connection with a thrashing-machine, in the mannerhereinafter described, so as to take the straw coming from the machineand carry it either to the right or the left from the machine, as wellas straightforward therefrom, as may be desired.

In the drawings, let A represent a thrashingmachine of any usual ordesired construction, and B a straw-carrier. This carrier is representedas an endlessapron carrier, though I do not limit my invention to that,or any particular kind of carrier.

The power for driving the carrier B is communicated from thethrashing-machine from a suitable revolving shaft of the machinetheshaker-shaft, as shown in the drawings. From a pulley, a, on this shafta driving belt or cord, 0, extends to a pulley, b, on the drivin g-shaftof the carrier. This belt or cord, for the direct or usual arrangementof the carrier, extends directly from the pulley a to the pulley b. Thereceiving end of the carrier is provided with two sustaining-hooks, c c,for supporting that end of the same by hooking over a rod or bar. In thedirect arrangement of the carrier these hooks are hooked over ahorizontal cross-rod, cl, mounted in the rear end of thethrashing-machine. The rear or delivery end of the straw-carrier issupported by legs f f, or by any'other support that may be convenientwhere it is located.

For supporting the receiving end of the carrier when it is arranged todeliver the straw to the right from the thrashing-machine, either atright angles or obliquely to the longitudinal direction of the machine,I employ as a suitable means a movable rod or bar, D, provided, at oneend, with a hook, g, on an upward extension of the rod, to hook over thecrossrod 01 of the machine, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and, at theother end, provided with a leg or support, h, of the proper length tohold the rod D in a horizontal position. Over this rod D thus arranged,the hooks o c of the carrier are hooked, the other end of the car.- rierbeing supported'as above specified. In this arrangement of the carrier,Figs. 1 and 2, the belt or cord 0 has to change direction in its passagebetween the pulleys a and b, and to effect this two loose pulleys, t andl, are mounted on the leg h of the movable rod D, around which theforward and return parts of the belt or cord travel, respectively, asrepresented. For the arrangement of the carrier to convey the straw tothe left, as in Figs. 3 and 4, the same movable rod D, with its leg orsupport h, is used, as shown, the hook g thereof also hooking on thecross-rod d of the thrashing-machine, in the manner repre sented; andthe rear end of the carrier is supported as before described. In thiscase, also. the belt or cord 0 changes direction; and since thedriving-pulley b is here brought near to the thrashing-machine, whilethe loose pulleys on the leg h are on the other side of the carrier,another pair of loose friction-pulleys, m n, are employed, being mountedon the side of the thrashing-machine, in proper position for the belt orcord to pass around to change direction. The belt or cord, in this case,is required to cross itself, as at p, in order to run the carrier-apronin the right direction.

The belt or cord 0 is required to be varied in length for the threedifferent positions, of the straw-carrier.

Three difi'erent ones may be conveniently employed, each preciselyadjusted in length to the requirement of each respective arrangement ofthe carrier.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The movable supporting-rod D, provided with the hook g and leg orsupport h, in combination with the straw-carrier B and thrashing-machineA, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

GEORGE GENTZEL.

YVitnesses:

D. F. LUSE, JOHN BOOZER.

